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&ldquo;On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century.

Of bouncers & googlies... And tackling them

The modern Indian shopper is visiting a broad &lsquo;repertoire&rsquo; of stores, is brand loyal and value conscious, according to a report by The Nielsen Company. The study on shopper habits and retailer strategies across urban India found that instead of gravitating to just one store, the Indian shopper is moving across store types to fulfill a variety of needs.

'Crossover shopper' comes of age

Mahindra Holidays &amp; Resorts has cut out defaulters and dormant customers to streamline operations.

No room for defaulters

With the introduction of 3G services, the expected rise in mobile data consumption will modify user habits. The 3G wireless platform that would provide data speeds of up to 21Mbps, mobile TV, high-definition video content, multimedia gaming, video calling and conferencing on your mobile handset is definitely worth waiting for. Here&rsquo;s what industry experts think about the third generation of mobile telephony and how it would influence new consumption regions and patterns for the 700 million mobile subscribers &ndash; growing at the rate of 15 million subscribers every month &ndash; in the country.

The change is in your hands

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Get paid to recycle your old gadgets

Tata Chemicals recently launched a range of pulses branded i-Shakti Dal. Observers feel that this is just the beginning of the foray into edibles by the company which started out as a fertiliser producer and diversified into salt. That&rsquo;s not off the mark. Tata Chemicals Chief Operating Officer (consumer products division) Ashvini Hiran says: &ldquo;We will invest more in i-Shakti which will serve as our umbrella food brand.

Chemistry of pulses

Cellcast Interactive is all set to roll out its own television channel in the second quarter of 2011. The channel will be the first 24X7 participatory channel in India and will telecast interactive game shows only. Cellcast Interactive India Founder &amp; Chief Executive Officer Pankaj Thakar says: &ldquo;Cellcast India has been the pioneer in developing integrated participation content in the fast-growing Indian mobile and interactive TV market. It will be completely based on user-generated content and the viewers can participate and win prizes.

Participatory gaming

The home textiles market in India is estimated to be Rs 17,000 crore and is growing at over 9 per cent annually.

KIT: The home textiles market in India

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R Gopalakrishnan, Tata Chemicals Vice Chairman, calls it the &lsquo;farm to fork&rsquo; strategy. Just a fortnight ago, the company became the country&rsquo;s first national branded player in pulses by launching four popular varieties &ndash; chana, toor, urad and moong under the i-Shakti brand name.

Tata joins the farm to fork bandwagon

When the &ldquo;Christmas Caravan&rdquo;, a holiday-themed delivery truck carrying Santa Claus and a group of carol singers, rolled into your friendly neighbourhood outlet, it was a part of Coca Cola India&rsquo;s compelling holiday campaigns.

Coke keeps Yuletide caravan rolling

If prophet Moses was to rewrite the &lsquo;Ten Commandments&rsquo; on Mount Sinai today, he would not have to necessarily etch his words in stone. He would have a plethora of options &mdash; a notebook, netbook, or even a tablet PC like Apple&rsquo;s iPad.

In full display: Tablets dazzle at CES 2011

When Rajan Anandan quit as the Managing Director of Microsoft India in August 2010, many within the industry assumed he would start his own company. But Anandan had other plans.

Sharing success

Hastings has been a New Year&rsquo;s fixture since the 1890s. The Sussex resort is of course famous as the venue for the 1066 English equivalent of the Battle of Panipat. It has also played host to all world champions except Fischer and Kasparov.

Chess (#664)

Whoever said the first impression is the best impression was clearly wrong. Stepping into the main lobby of Grosvenor House hotel on Park Lane in Central London, even the most generous of critics would have to say &ldquo;I have seen better.&rdquo; It is not that it is bad or unimpressive, but there is very little that offers the shock and awe value which hotels, even in India today, can offer &mdash; think of Mumbai&rsquo;s Taj Mahal Hotel, or even the more modern Shangri-La in New Delhi.

Its strength is its history

A village in Kerala readies for an athiraathram, the most complex of the Vedic yajnas.

Invoking Agni

Desert Storm

Force Motors may be well known for its Traveller LCVs, three-wheelers and Trax MUVs, but it now wants to be known as a &lsquo;force&rsquo; to reckon with in the SUV segment. Come April 2011 and it will launch a new SUV that will slot itself nicely between the Tata Safari and Ford Endeavour. Force Motors plans to introduce a seven-seat SUV in the Rs 12-15 lakh segment and for that it plans to set up a different distribution and service network.

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